Turtle Mountain

Divisional Plan

Professional Learning Funding provided by Manitoba Education - Please provide details below

1) To date, how have you used the money your division received for K-8 teachers' LwICT professional learning in 2008-09 and 2009-10?
To date, money that we have received from the department has been spent on tech in-services; area meetings; paying for conferences; and Maplewood sessions.

2) What professional learning is occurring now because of the extra funding that you previously not able to do?
The area meetings has been one of the biggest benefits. The extra funding has allowed for paying substitutes to come in while the classroom teachers go over various issues. It has also allowed for additional mentoring, as substitutes were brought in, while ICT knowledgeable staff helped peers.
In essence, the extra funding has allowed for an increasing in training and exposure to ICT.

3) Does your division have any strategies for ongoing professional learning (For example: Professional Learning Community - online, face-to-face, mentors, etc?)
As division, NO. As individual schools, YES.
This is because the individual schools have ICT heads, however there is not an ICT coordinator for the entire division.

4) What successful strategies would you like to recommend to other divisions?
After school mentoring, where the ICT head runs a bi-weekly session for anyone who wants to attend where he simply answers questions or goes over programs that teachers would like to implement.

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Report Card Samples

5) How often do you report on Literacy with ICT during the school year?
3 times a year this year......down to once per year next year.

6) Which grades are reporting on Literacy with ICT?
K-8

7) When does the reporting occur?
November, March, June

8) What feedback have you received from parents regarding reporting of Literacy with ICT?
Very little, because many of the parents do not really understand what a 1, 2 or 3 mean in regards to how well their kids use the computer.

9) In certain circumstances, a child may have more than one teacher. How would/do your teachers report on a child's literacy with ICT in this circumstance? Please discuss with your divisional team and record some possible strategies to address this issue.
Homeroom teacher takes care of it, or the ELA teacher.

10) If there have been changes to your divisional statement of belief on reporting on LwICT, since last year, upload or insert the text below.
N/A - maybe next time.

For more information, please contact.....skleebaum@tmsd.mb.ca

Transition to Senior Years

11) Thoughts on Literacy with ICT transition to the Senior Years
There really should not be a continuum, but rather it should be an expectation built into each individual courses curriculums.
Continuums are far to subject to opinions, and interrpretation. They do not allow for the cut-and-dry explanations that many parents are looking for with their children.

12 )Ongoing support for K-8 teachers
MONEY MONEY MONEY - tough to have ongoing support when your ICT budgets are getting cut. Mentoring must become a much more utilized option (both from a delivery and receiver point-of-view) - acceptance to help and acceptance to be helped.